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• King County's Inquest into Che Taylor’s Death Has Begun

  31-01-2017 23:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackSeattle Police officers Michael Spaulding, left, and Scott Miller, sit during a recess of Monday's inquest hearing. Lester Black
  An at-capacity King County courtroom watched a jury pool of 20 people get slowly narrowed down to 16 on Monday during the first day of an inquest into the death of Che Taylor, who was killed by two Seattle police officers in February of last year. The inquest, which is not a trial but rather a public fact finding commission, continues Tuesday and through
  
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• Taxing Robots Will Solve All of Our Problems

  31-01-2017 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeRobots must pay to do our work. Getty Images
  The big news in France's political world is that the Socialist Party did something that the Labour Party in the UK did, and the Democratic Party is still struggling to do in the US: displaced a centrist (neoliberal) with a progressive (social democrat). In the UK, that move from centrist control is represented by the current leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who came into power after Labour's neoliberals (Brownites and Blairi
  
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• Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum Devastates With His First Show in Two Years

  31-01-2017 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eric Grandy"Please don't come. It was supposed to be a mellow 'practice show,' unamplified and quiet, in a very small record store at5pm." EG
  Three weeks ago, on the first Friday of the new year, Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum debuted a set of 11 new songs at Anacortes record store the Business. It was his first show in two years, and also the first since his wife, the artist and musician Geneviève Castrée Elverum of Ô Paon, had passed away from a year-long battle with p
  
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• King County Metro Sends Memo on Refugee Ban to Employees: "Take Care of Each Other, and Be Safe"

  31-01-2017 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstone"Many of the people we work with side-by-side, every day, are immigrants or refugees," Metro General Manager Rob Gannon wrote. Charles Mudede
  King County Metro Transit General Manager Rob Gannon sent a memo to Metro employees this morning expressing concern over the Trump administration's Muslim immigrant and refugee ban.Gannon, who said that he was extending support to Metro employees and communities who may be affected by the ban, also urged employees to respect one another
  
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• Murray, Cantwell say they're being misled, blast Trump Cabinet picks

  31-01-2017 22:38
  
  The U.S. Senate can't do its duty vetting President Trump's Cabinet nominees if questions are left "unanswered," senators are "misled" and key conflict-of-interest issues are left on the table, Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, D-Wash., argued Tuesday.
  
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• Murray and Cantwell say they are being misled, blast Trump Cabinet picks

  31-01-2017 22:38
  
  Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell oppose rush to confirmation of Trump Cabinet picks, saying questions have been left unanswered, senators "misled," with conflict of interest questions left hanging.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Abhorrence and the Machine

  31-01-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageI'm in a relationship with a wonderful guy whom I love very, very much—but I dread being intimate with him, because it always ends with me screaming silently to myself as he rams himself into me as hard and fast as possible. I'm left fighting back tears, feeling alone and used. It's not that he wouldn't stop if I asked him to—but I bite my lip and try to tolerate it for as long as I can because it's the only way he can orgasm. He masturbates extremely vigorously, and whe
  
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• King County teen wrestled in 16-state tourney, not knowing he had mumps

  31-01-2017 22:16
  
  Health officials in Washington and Minnesota so far are not reporting new cases linked to the tournament despite the close contact of the sport. His opponents, as well as fellow students at home, were alerted. The current outbreak has reached more than 5,300 cases nationwide.
  
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• PBS’ ‘Nova’ seeking periodic-table fans to fund TV special

  31-01-2017 22:13
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Geeks of America, PBS’ “Nova” wants you to open up your minds and wallets for a sequel to its sleeper 2012 hit film on the periodic table. A Kickstarter campaign for $1 million to finance “Beyond the Elements” from public TV station WGBH Boston launched Tuesday. The follow-up to “Hunting the […]
  
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• Homeless camp cleanup could finally change

  31-01-2017 22:02
  
  Seattle homeless camps that are a hazard or block a public area may be a thing of the past.But so might also be the myriad issues faced by Seattle's homeless population in trying to find a place to rest while holding onto their few belongings.
  
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• Why Should I Give a Fuck About the Ghetto Chilldren?

  31-01-2017 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Why Should I GAF About... the Ghetto Chilldren?by Larry Mizell Jr.Years Active: 1991–98.Provenance: Garfield High School, Central District, Seattle.Essential Albums: None officially released, just demos passed around, dubbed, and hoarded. All Northwest hiphop heads worth their salt should be familiar with the essential compilations Untranslated Prescriptions, Do the Math, 14 Fathoms Deep, and Classic Elements—all of which contain Ghetto Chilldren songs, and all of which are within yo
  
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• David Schmader Gets High with His Mom After the Women's March

  31-01-2017 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  David Schmader Gets High with His Mom After the Women's Marchby David SchmaderRosemary is a 75-year-old woman I met when I emerged from her birth canal in 1968, on what happened to be her own birthday—a coincidence made weighty by the personal, moral, and aesthetic similarities that grew over the years between my mom and me. Among our shared viewpoints: Women matter, bullies suck, cheese rules, God is overrated, and a whole lot of Trump-based anxiety might be displaced if we committed to g
  
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• Can Arts Organizations Address Seattle's Homelessness Crisis in a Meaningful Way? Seattle Symphony Is Trying

  31-01-2017 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Can Arts Organizations Address Seattle's Homelessness Crisis in a Meaningful Way? Seattle Symphony Is Trying.by Rich SmithAt last count, more than 4,000 people sleep on the streets of Seattle every night. Thousands more live in transitional or insecure housing, while others couch surf or sleep in cars. Anyone with two eyes, a heart, and a view of a tent city wants to do something about our housing crisis, which only grows more vexing considering the growing list of national crises demanding urge
  
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• Republican Dave Reichert and Democrat Pramila Jayapal Cosponsor Legislation to Protect Dreamers

  31-01-2017 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverRepublican Dave Reichert has avoided taking a firm position against Donald Trump's travel ban. office of rep. dave reichert
  In a surprising partnership, US Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) and Dave Reichert (R-Auburn) are cosponsoring a bill members of Congress are calling the Bar Removal of Individuals who Dream and Grow our Economy (BRIDGE) Act. The bill would allow people who qualified for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to stay in the Unit
  
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• Lobstermen question need for restrictions to help species

  31-01-2017 21:42
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Some lobster fishermen expressed skepticism Tuesday about a plan to try to revive the dwindling southern New England lobster stock through new fishing restrictions. Lobster fishing in the U.S. is experiencing a boom that has lasted several years, and prices have also been high. But the population of the species has […]
  
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• ITMFA Update

  31-01-2017 21:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageLast week I announced the relaunch of www.ImpeachTheMotherFuckerAlready.com—my 2006 Bush-era meme & fundraising effort—to raise money for organizations fighting the new Trump misadministration.
  I didn't think I'd see a worse president than George W. Bush in my lifetime. But here we are. So I'm bringing back my line of ITMFA buttons and adding T-shirts and, yes, hats to the ITMFA collection. Go to impeachthemotherfuckeralready.com or, if that's too much typing, ITMFA.
  
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• Adam Ant's Seattle Show Still on Despite Death of Guitarist Tom Edwards

  31-01-2017 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  On January 25, Tom Edwards, 41-year-old guitarist and musical director for British '80s glam-rock superstar Adam Ant, died of suspected heart failure in New Jersey while on a tour of North America. Despite this tragic setback, Adam Ant will still perform on Friday, Feb. 3 at the Neptune Theatre. (Edwards's death had caused Ant to postpone shows in Philadelphia and New York.) On this tour, Adam Ant and his band are playing 1980's unhinged, Burundi-drums-inflected, new-wave classic,
  
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• 3 arrested after $500K SeaTac jewelry heist

  31-01-2017 21:01
  
  State troopers arrested three people after a jewelry courier was beaten and robbed of almost $500,000 in jewelry at a SeaTac hotel Monday night.
  
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• Two Concrete Things You Can Ask Your Senators to Do About the Muslim Ban

  31-01-2017 20:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithIndivisible wants the Capitol Building to fill with obstruction warriors until Trump's Muslim ban is lifted. uschools / gettyimages
  On Monday night, twenty-five thousand people participated in an emergency conference call concerning the details of Trump's travel ban and the actions congress can take to slow it down or end it.The call was organized by Indivisible, a group of former congressional staffers who hope to build and sustain a liberal version of the Tea Party (aka Tea People
  
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• St. Mark's: A 'wall of faithful citizens' will confront any refugee roundup

  31-01-2017 20:10
  
  St. Mark's Cathedral offers a "circle of protection" to immigrants and refugees, and a "veritable wall of faithful citizens" will confront any attempt to remove them, described by its dean as "evil, un-Christian and un-American.".
  
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• Seattle Releases New Rules for Clearing Homeless Encampments

  31-01-2017 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverProtesters called on the city and state to "stop the sweeps" when officials cleared a homeless encampment known as The Jungle last year. HG
  As the City of Seattle and Washington State Transportation Department face a lawsuit over how they clear homeless encampments, Seattle has released a draft of new rules for how it will clear those encampments in the future.The long-promised draft rules are an update to what's known inside the city as the multi-departmental administrative rule
  
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• Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series at SAM is Essential American History, Masterfully Rendered

  31-01-2017 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Emily PothastJacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel 58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities, 1940-1941.© The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource NY, © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation,Seattle / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
  Poverty. Police violence. Overcrowded trains and tenements. Segregation. Race riots. Death. For all the hardships and trauma depicted in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series (on view
  
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• Pike Place Market expansion to open in June

  31-01-2017 19:28
  
  The expansion project includes additional vendor stalls, parking space and several low-income senior housing units.
  
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• Travel ban throws research, academic exchange into turmoil

  31-01-2017 19:27
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Universities across the nation say President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries is disrupting vital research projects and academic exchanges in such fields as medicine, public health and engineering, with untold numbers of scholars blocked from entering the U.S. For years, schools in the U.S. have worked to widen […]
  
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• Police stop nude jogger on Microsoft campus after seeing ‘illuminated’ buttocks

  31-01-2017 19:15
  
  The man was not charged with a crime, but police warn that running in the buff could be considered indecent exposure.
  
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• Washington Companies and Employers (Amazon, Microsoft, more) Stand Up to Trump. Others, Not So Much.

  31-01-2017 18:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneAmazon's Seattle campus. The company has submitted a declaration supporting the Washington Attorney General's lawsuit against Trump. Kelly O
  On Monday afternoon, the Attorney General for the state of Washington filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its Muslim travel and immigration ban. Unlike the challenge to the Trump administration's executive order filed by the ACLU and National Immigration Law Center over the weekend, the AG's motion to freeze the Muslim
  
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• Sheriff: Bodies found in truck, Kitsap County home are victims of quadruple homicide

  31-01-2017 18:48
  
  The victims include a woman and two 16-year-old boys found in a burning home on Friday.
  
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• Oh, Look. There's a Dumb Gay Person On the Top of the NYT Homepage.

  31-01-2017 18:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Sigh.
  Mr. Trump’s new immigration policy may be setting off protests around the country and raising eyebrows and objections among allies abroad. But at home, a large portion of the electorate is behind the president. Mr. Trump’s supporters say that the promise of tougher immigration policies is one of the main reasons they voted for him.... “I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ I was so happy,” said Mr. Oliva, 32. He is gay and said he was deeply affected b
  
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• Guest Editorial: King County Should Not Build a New Juvenile Detention Center

  31-01-2017 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rod DembowskiThe authors, King County Council member Rod Dembowski and Seattle City Council member Bruce Harrell, say "it is time to hit the reset button" on a new youth jail. King CountyIn a speech titled “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. cautioned leaders to not sleep through revolutions unfolding before them, and reminded us that “the time is always right to do what is right.” This core principle of the civil rights movement s
  
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• Fearing Trump campaign promise, Spokane City Council votes against religious registry

  31-01-2017 18:13
  
  Opponents of the ordinance called the vote “fake council business” and an effort to demonize the president.
  
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• For $5.5M, you can rent an entire Seattle hotel — for a month

  31-01-2017 18:06
  
  The Edgewater hotel in Seattle is turning 55. And for just a few million, you can rent it for an entire month.
  
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• The Morning News: Washington Senators and Representatives Fight Against Muslim Ban, Amazon's Jeff Bezos Says He Will Too

  31-01-2017 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufDemonstrators protesting Trump's Muslim ban flooded Sea-Tac Airport on Saturday night. ASK
  Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray Fight Against Trump's Muslim Ban: The two Washington senators co-sponsored two bills introduced by Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Monday to block Trump's ban on visitors, refugees and immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. The order "flies in the face of our core American values," Cantwell s
  
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• Fourth person in Kitsap County quadruple murder identified

  31-01-2017 17:02
  
  The Kitsap County coroner has identified the fourth victim in a quadruple murder in Kitsap County.
  
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• Sally Yates: Another Elliott Richardson at the DOJ (Until Yesterday)

  31-01-2017 16:47 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageI tweeted this the day after Trump won the the election the United States committed bigotry-assisted suicide...
  Over the next four years we will find out how many Elliott Richardsons we have versus how many Robert Borks. https://t.co/jH10cr9dyL
  — Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) November 9, 2016
  ...that link is to the Wiki page for the Saturday Night Massacre:
  The Saturday Night Massacre was the term used by political commentators to refer to U.S. President Richard Nixon's dismissa
  
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• Hummingbird nest halts upgrades on Bay Area bridge

  31-01-2017 16:26
  
  RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The discovery of a hummingbird’s nest with an egg inside is stalling upgrades on a San Francisco Bay Area bridge. KCBS reports (http://cbsloc.al/2kLxRfF ) Tuesday that the backhoes are waiting and the safety barriers are ready. But work on a key part of the $70 million Richmond-San Rafael Bridge’s upgrade project […]
  
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• Hummingbird egg gets in way of upgrades to California bridge

  31-01-2017 16:26
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A tiny unborn hummingbird is getting in the way of a big bridge project in the San Francisco Bay Area. The discovery of a nest and egg in a tree is stalling the start of upgrades on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge about 30 miles north of San Francisco, officials said Tuesday. […]
  
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• Syrian refugee couple’s fear came true: President Trump’s ban blocks their children

  31-01-2017 16:19
  
  One local refugee couple waits anxiously for clarity on whether their children will be allowed to join them in Seattle after a recent executive order banning refugees from entering the United States.
  
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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray asks county to reconsider youth-jail plan

  31-01-2017 15:06
  
  In a letter Monday to County Executive Dow Constantine and King County Superior Court Presiding Judge Laura Inveen, Murray stopped short of opposing the project outright but said the county should re-examine the design.
  
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• Number of homeless students in Washington state climbs to nearly 40,000

  31-01-2017 15:01
  
  Nearly 40,000 Washington students were homeless during the 2015-16 school year, according to the state superintendent’s office.
  
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• Republicans and Democrats offer competing voting-rights bills in Legislature

  31-01-2017 15:00
  
  The voting-rights bills have rekindled debate in Washington state over efforts to make local elections more hospitable to minority candidates.
  
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• Beacon Hill's Dim Sum House Serves Small Dishes That Are Simple Yet Flavorful

  31-01-2017 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Beacon Hill's Dim Sum House Serves Small Dishes That Are Simple Yet Packed with Flavorby Angela GarbesOn a cold day, the front door and windows of Beacon Hill's Dim Sum House fog up quickly. Steam—rising from the many bowls of congee, plates of chow fun noodles, and baskets of steamed-to-order dumplings that fill its cozy dining room—travels through the air and clings to the glass like a moist kiss. When you walk in, you are welcomed into the modest restaurant's warm, soy-sauce-scent
  
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